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  2. Catskill Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km 2) forest preserve protected from many forms of development under ...

  3. Catskill High Peaks - Wikipedia

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    The Catskill High Peaks are all of the mountains in New York 's Catskill Mountains above 3,500 ft (1,067 m) in elevation whose summits are separated either by one-half mile (0.8 km) or a vertical drop of at least 250 ft (76.2 m) between it and the next nearest separate summit. By usual standards, these mountains are rather low and rounded, and ...

  4. History of the Catskill Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazic Jews. At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region.

  5. Catskill Park - Wikipedia

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    The Catskill Park is in the Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. It consists of 700,000 acres (280,000 ha; 2,800 km 2) of land inside a Blue Line in four counties: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster. As of 2005, 287,500 acres (116,300 ha) [1] or 41 percent of the land within, is owned by the state as part of the Forest Preserve ...

  6. Catskill Mountain House - Wikipedia

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    The Catskill Mountain House, which opened in 1824, was a famous hotel near Palenville, New York, and in the Catskill Mountains overlooking the Hudson River Valley. In its prime, from the 1850s to the turn of the century, it was visited by three U.S. presidents ( U.S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, and Theodore Roosevelt) and the power elite of the day.

  7. Fir Mountain (New York) - Wikipedia

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    Fir Mountain (New York) /  42.0275916°N 74.4690414°W  / 42.0275916; -74.4690414. Fir Mountain is a mountain located in Ulster County, New York. The mountain is part of the Catskill Mountains . Fir Mountain is flanked to the northwest by Big Indian Mountain, and to the southeast by Spruce Mountain . The east side of Fir Mountain drains ...

  8. Cornell Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Cornell Mountain is a mountain located in Ulster County, New York. The mountain is part of the Burroughs Range of the Catskill Mountains . Cornell Mountain is flanked to the northeast by Wittenberg Mountain, to the southwest by Friday Mountain, and to the west by 4,180-foot (1,270 m) Slide Mountain — the highest peak in the Catskills.

  9. Devil's Path (Catskills) - Wikipedia

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    The Devil's Path is a mountain range and hiking trail in the Greene County portion of New York 's Catskill Mountains. The mountains commonly considered to be part of the Devil's Path are, from west to east, West Kill, Hunter, Plateau, Sugarloaf, Twin, and Indian Head . The name comes from early settlers of the region, who believed the range's ...

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